A heartbroken boyfriend paid tribute to his 'soulmate' teacher who died just one month after she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
PE teacher Ashton Clothier was just 29 when she died from glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumour she had been diagnosed with just a month prior.
Her boyfriend Marc Burnip, 42, planned to pop the question to Ashton when her first round of treatment started to take effect.
But the teacher, from Blyth in Northumberland, died in hospital on September 16, Chronicle Live reports. Marc said: "I asked her mum and she said yes, she would love to have me in the family, which meant the world to me. "Ashton was my life.
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